Episode Details

Japan launches Fable alternative as EU blocks Claude, while Nobel laureate jumps to Anthropic Japan's Sakana AI fires back at the Claude shutdown with Fugu, a flexible new AI system designed to bypass European restrictions. Meanwhile, a Nobel Prize winner abandons Google DeepMind for Anthropic, GLM-5.2 shakes up open-source AI, and we unpack why Elon's Union Pacific comparison accidentally reveals SpaceX's subsidy dependency.